Suggested by dreadlockssite, I played around with the look of Ning's new Chat Box via the Creators.ning.com site. I haven't installed the new Chat on my site for various reasons. I will soon. So, I have not tested this CSS on a live site yet. Anyone who tries out the CSS, we'd love to hear how it goes!

Instructions:

Adjust the styles below to suit your preference. All of the styles are documented.

You can make it larger than needed, but I wouldn't go too large for load time. What I did? I measured the box with my browser ruler, didn't even try to see width/height in the CSS. Then I sized the beach/water image to be around 75 pixels more in both directions.